{"id":7434,"date":"2017-09-28T20:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=7434"},"modified":"2017-09-28T20:00:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T11:00:55","slug":"thailand-fa-president-confirms-joint-bid-host-2034-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/09\/28\/thailand-fa-president-confirms-joint-bid-host-2034-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand FA president confirms joint bid to host 2034 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Football Association of Thailand (FAT) president Somyot Poompunmuang has confirmed the joint bid of his organization and Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) to <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/09\/24\/indonesia-thailand-bid-2034-world-cup\/\">host 2034 World Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s true that we are considering a joint bid to host the 2034 World Cup with the PSSI,\u201d Somyot told media on Wednesday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/news\/sports\/1332539\/somyot-confirms-interest-in-joint-bid-for-world-cup\">as quoted by the Bangkok Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although the standard of football stadiums in Thailand cannot be compared with those in Indonesia, I believe that when we officially make a joint bid we would get funds [from the government] to build stadiums that meet Fifa&#8217;s standard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To date, no other country has confirmed or submitted a bid for the 2034 World Cup yet.<\/p>\n<p>If successful, it will be the third time that Asia plays host to a World Cup after South Korea-Japan in 2002 and Qatar in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football Association of Thailand (FAT) president Somyot Poompunmuang has confirmed the joint bid of his organization and Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) to host 2034 World Cup. &#8220;It&#8217;s true that we are considering a joint bid to host the 2034 World Cup with the PSSI,\u201d Somyot told media on Wednesday, as quoted by the Bangkok Post. &#8220;Although the standard of football stadiums in Thailand cannot be compared with those in Indonesia, I believe that when we officially make a joint bid we would get funds [from the government] to build stadiums that meet Fifa&#8217;s standard.&#8221; To date, no other country has confirmed or submitted a bid for the 2034 World &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/09\/28\/thailand-fa-president-confirms-joint-bid-host-2034-world-cup\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Thailand FA president confirms joint bid to host 2034 World Cup&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":7435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,38],"tags":[703,768,91,301,95,604,68,332],"class_list":["post-7434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indonesia","category-thailand","tag-fat","tag-fifa","tag-indonesia","tag-pssi","tag-slider","tag-somyot-poompunmuang","tag-thailand","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}